Sherlock Holmes (TV Series)

The Case of the Winthrop Legend (1954)

Howard Marion-Crawford: Dr. John H. Watson

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Quotes 

• [looking out the window of their 221B Baker Street flat] 

  Dr. John H. Watson : There's a gentleman just arrived in a hansom - appears to be coming up here.

  Sherlock Holmes : What else did you notice about our visitor?

  Dr. John H. Watson : Well, I don't know. I'd say abou thirtyish, conservatively dressed, a man of modest means. What do you think, Holmes?

  Sherlock Holmes : I don't know. I didn't see him - you did!

• [first lines] 

  Dr. John H. Watson : [narrating]  My name is Dr. John Watson. I shared a flat at 221B Baker Street with a young man named Sherlock Holmes. This would normally be a simple statement of simple fact, but I had learned in the first few weeks of our association that the normal process of returning home was in itself an adventure. I never knew what to expect; I seldom expected what I found.

• Dr. John H. Watson : May I ask, sir, what precautions you've taken against it?

  John Winthrop : What would one do? How does one fight a myth? Well, what's your opinion, Mr. Holmes? Should I take this matter serioiusly?

  Sherlock Holmes : You are obviously taking it seriously by defying it - by coming down here to prove it doesn't exist.

  John Winthrop : By Jove, I hadn't thought of it like that. You're dead right, of course, but let me put it like this. Do you really think that the legend is dangerous?

  Sherlock Holmes : You're obviously overlooking the second conclusion, sir. If the legend is real and beyond our understanding, then your life my threatened by the supernatural. If we rule that out and the threat has a very realistic source, in either case the threat remains.

• Sherlock Holmes : Did you realise that young Harvey Winthrop was in love with Alice before she married his brother?

  Dr. John H. Watson : Holmes, you're fantastic! How did you determine that?

  Sherlock Holmes : He told me.

• [last lines] 

  [Holmes finds a coin next to the Peg Hall body] 

  Dr. John H. Watson : But it's a gold doubloon.

  Sherlock Holmes : And she said no court in the world would ever convict her.